Intellivision Amico - Tommy Tallarico introduction + Q&A

4 minutes ago, Michael Garvey said:

Oh no. Now that I know I'll have to join and become a shill or resist and become a troll.

 

What should I do

 

 

😧

You just keep drinking the Kool-Aid... you'll be fine.

Just have a lie down over there when you're done.

1 minute ago, Blarneo said:

Actually, GP like you is not to be informed of this, and We will deal with the loose lips from our "brother".

Tommy; there will be a van parked out front in 15 minutes. Be on it!

And Michael, Please try not to notice.

I see nothing...absolutely nothing....

8 minutes ago, MarioMan88 said:

Congrats on the successful vip pre sale Tommy! Happy for you guys and even tho I didn’t order the black I will try to pick one up on launch. Can’t wait for my 2 FE woody models to get here 😊

Thanks for the support!

1 minute ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

You just keep drinking the Kool-Aid... you'll be fine.

 

Just have a lie down over there when you're done.

I guess resistence is farkle I mean futile. 

48 minutes ago, Steven Pendleton said:

I was actually thinking of asking you about anti-hacking stuff a while ago. Then I realized there is no point since that stuff is supposed to be a secret so it's harder to hack the thing.

Well yeah.... there is that.

And just remember... the best way to try and stop hacking.... is to hire a hacker.

48 minutes ago, Saldo said:

Nope, not an April fools. Blu-Rays and DVDs delivered old school ....DVD.netflix.com.  I also have access to an account I can use for streaming.

Damn!  Ya learn something every day!

I'm not sure how well those Redbox things are doing... but I see a few of them around town.  Mostly outside grocery stores. 

9 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

Most of the physical media won't be $30.  Only super special limited edition ones.  I'm calling them the CMART CARTS.   

 

We'll have a complete list of ALL available physical media up on our website (and where they will be available).  Will be very helpful for the folks looking to complete everything.

and for this I thank you, although I’m fairly certain I’ve given your billing department direct access to my Paypal account so they can make sure all versions are sent to me right away. 😂 Much appreciated. 🙏🏻

I think I'm hallucinating. 

I'm reading Tommy talking to me here and seeing him talk on the YouTubes in an interview. 

It's like mental stereo. 

Mind is blown right now.

8 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

We think we can get it anywhere from $14.99 - $22.50 but can't confirm anything at this point.  Average being around $19.99.

 

 

I'd be fine with those prices on physical games...but i want them to be super fun and unique. As well do you think they might come in a box, on a card, or both?

Glad to hear the VIP pre-sale went good. Got my FE and now the VIP edition. All set. Will get one more console when they are available at stores.

9 hours ago, RetroAdvisoryBoard said:

 

Sorry for anyone not aware of the drama, ignore this post.  For anyone who is bothered by it/following it, some thoughts:

 

 

 

The amount of energy spent on a small consumer electronics good they have no interest in purchasing is.. an unfortunate waste of time.  I'm not interested in the daily tabloids of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle or Prince William and Kate or Princess So-and-So, so I just ignore it.  As they concern me, that there is a royal family.. I'm aware, I don't have much thought beyond the media attention I find inflated, it's an annoyance.  And that's the end of it.

 

Here you'd expect the two to be mostly indifferent.  Watch the review trailer, the big announcements, and proclaim, "I don't see the audience they think they can get with this.  I just don't see the market for it.  Maybe I like a couple things it's trying to do, but I don't think it's enough to sell this product, especially at the price they're pushing."  That is a perfectly reasonable take, and that was the bulk of their reaction in Spring of 2018 when they first reported on the Intellivision Amico.  The same stance later that fall at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo trailer.  They made a number of assumptions, I'd love to have argued some of those but they were making observations based on their perspective, all fair. 

 

Then Pat covered the Gamescon trailer this past August, where we first saw actual footage of Amico games. He was notably unrehearsed on the topic, and didn't do any research before addressing what he saw and why he didn't think the console would work.  Cue the negative feedback.. which the two should not be unaccustomed to, they've taken extreme positions and belittled fanbases, belittled groups in general dozens and dozens of times on their podcast, some amount of criticism should be expected.

 

Then the Twitter spat followed - first radio silence as Tommy and Amico supporters/followers directly tweeted Pat's account, requested an interview, a sit-down, an off-the-record, any sort of dialogue.  Total silence on Pat's end.  And some amount of disparaging comments here on this thread, a couple references from Tommy the two took umbrage with... and they used their next podcast together a couple weeks later to launch an all-out attack.  No fewer jabs here than the number of disparaging tweets and their own viewer's YouTube comments Pat liked and responded to.  There's an echo chamber there, and a fair amount of joy in derision.  Not exactly a one-way street.  Ever since, it's been dozens and dozens of underhand references and subtle jabs in every other podcast.  And more likes from Pat when his audience joins in the fray.  They didn't go unnoticed.  Just as Rich from ReviewTechUSA noted the year and a half of subtle, passive-aggressive remarks Pat has made, that mostly go over the listeners' head unless they're aware of the cold distance between Pat and Rich following Rich's call-out of Pat's remarks, unless they're aware that when Pat and Ian make any inside-joke reference to "family, friends, family", cheap money-grabbing microconsole attempts at our nostalgic heartstrings, any attempt to say Nintendo isn't firmly meeting the needs of a family audience - they're adding underhanded swipes at Intellivision. 

 

I won't presume to understand Pat's motivation.  He either reads this forum thread - completely open access - or certain posts are forwarded to him by members of his audience.  He's read a couple, cherry-picked, that bring up a point he concurs with.  But if I were him, I'd step back.  Ask why I'm making snide comments like "enjoy playing your Shark! Shark!", "We'll see, maybe it sells.. 5,000" (The DigiBLAST sold over 100,000.  The Game Wave sold something like 70,000 units.. relatively unknown consoles - are you unaware of the business and sales aspect of this, or excessively dismissive just to be trite?), why I'm snickering and egging Ian on as he rants how Amico's games "look like absolute dog shit!", then two weeks later gleefully motivated to cover the "51 Worldwide Games" on Switch.. especially since it included a 1 second inclusion of a pool table - and you spent how much attention tearing Intellivision a new one because... they included a 1 second screen grab of a pool table?  The irony isn't lost.  At some point in this, the benefit of the doubt that he's pretending to cover the Intellivision console objectively is lost.  Just as the "our good friend Tommy Tallarico" wears phoney when you proceed to insult the guy, just like Ian did saying, "our good friend Rich at ReviewTechUSA" before disparaging him in every way he knew how, as the pair do when they disparage Ninja, or Pewdiepie, or any number of easy targets they'll never confront or engage with in any meaningful way.  The slings come hard and fast and the duo seem comfortable lobbing them and affronted when a swing back is ever taken.

 

But I would step away from the personalized, emotional entanglement here.  When Intellivision makes a major announcement, cover it.  There's been a four month period where any news drip from Intellivision has been covered and hyper-scrutinized.  There's a lot of video game news out there that may interest the two more.  Maybe it is of interest, but in that case, do better research.  Reach out, behind the scenes, to people you engage with.  Some of Pat's audience support Amico - maybe ask them to write why, what points they think he's not getting right, not seeing.  Let them bring the research to you.  

 

At the end of the day, it's a video game console.  It's trying to add a hundred, two hundred, four hundred new games to the world you wouldn't have.  Yes, Evel Knievel and Emoji Charades exist as free-to-play mobile games, with ads every few minutes, with microtransactions to ding you for more game a couple bucks at a time - these are being rehauled and re-imagined, just like Asteroids and Shark! Shark! are existing games being rehauled and re-imagined.  But, new games.  Lots of new games.  If you are at all as interested in video game preservation, as you purport to be, covering every odd little unreleased ROM that makes the news, why is this concept of hundreds of unique games something you're so dead-set against????  It needn't be Intellivision, it can be Pillsbury or Crazy Steve's Fireworks Superstore Extravaganza putting out the console - the brand has all of 5% relevance here to its intended audience.. the point is, new, unique games.  Even if this didn't sell more than two units upon launch, it's a new video game system out in the world, trying to do new things, with all those new games for people to play if they're into it.  It's a win for the video game community.  I just don't get the disparaging stance.   

 

 

My favourite post in a long time. Congrats. 

Tommy,

Serious question that has been bugging me with these interviews......

Can you please just once turn on that ceiling fan?

My mind is playing tricks on me and thinking it'll hit that corner of the ceiling. 

It's like an escher painting.  That ceiling is not right man.

I know you're all Hollywood an stuff but it just looks off.

Lol

You do you but could you at least prove that the fan doesn't hit anything?

5 minutes ago, Michael Garvey said:

I think I'm hallucinating. 

 

I'm reading Tommy talking to me here and seeing him talk on the YouTubes in an interview. 

 

It's like mental stereo. 

 

Mind is blown right now.

Want your mind blown? 

Is it Stephen, or is it Snoopy?

12 hours ago, Michael Garvey said:

So our friend @level1online has a great new video up and he talks more about the Amico. 

 

Please go and show support!!!!!

 

And although he didnt say my name he references me twice 😃

 

First he states that on this forum he found kaze and the wild masks - that was me 🙂

 

Then he says someone was a whiny baby complaining about having to have a Facebook or Twitter account - that was me too 😢

 

Lmao...too funny - from super happy to totally crushed and embarrassed.

 

Hahahahahaha

 

I love that guy.  He keeps it real and doesn't sugar coat anything. 

 

Thanks for the smiles.  I'll subscribe and hope that one day I can redeem myself in your eyes

 

😋

 

Watch "Intellivision Amico Chat, and Kaze and the Wild Masks (Beta Test on Steam)" on YouTube

 

 

 

 

HAHAHA! sorry about that! and thank you for not taking it personal, was just busting your chops!

12 minutes ago, level1online said:

HAHAHA! sorry about that! and thank you for not taking it personal, was just busting your chops!

Oh dont be sorry. You are awesome and I wouldn't want to listen to you any other way

Keep keeping it real and busting my chops any time.

🙂

12 minutes ago, level1online said:

HAHAHA! sorry about that! and thank you for not taking it personal, was just busting your chops!

For those of you who dont read level1online's comments...I told him that today I showed my girlfriend the video and she (without missing a beat) said "see you are a whining baby"

🤣😅😂

Tommy,
 
Serious question that has been bugging me with these interviews......
 
 
Can you please just once turn on that ceiling fan?
 
My mind is playing tricks on me and thinking it'll hit that corner of the ceiling. 
 
It's like an escher painting.  That ceiling is not right man.
 
I know you're all Hollywood an stuff but it just looks off.
 
Lol
 
You do you but could you at least prove that the fan doesn't hit anything?

1 minute ago, gogamego said:

I have talked with my wife about that fan and pentagon entrance. Haha. I keep thinking the same thing. How can that fan turn on without smacking the edge of the walls?

Sent from my PH-1 using Tapatalk
 

Omg a kindred spirit. 

I thought I was the only one.

Thank you and please thank your wife for me.

This is something that keeps me up at night.

That and about a million other things like how are child actors of famous tv sitcoms of th 70s and 80s making money now and am I the only person in the world who worries for their well being 

Watching this interview right now, just recently met Generational Gamer:

3 minutes ago, level1online said:

Watching this interview right now, just recently met Generational Gamer:

 

Everyone should check this out!  He asked me a question that NO ONE has ever asked before!!

"Wouldn't that be something!"

56 minutes ago, The Wren said:

I'd be fine with those prices on physical games...but i want them to be super fun and unique. As well do you think they might come in a box, on a card, or both?

All of the above.  The decision is yours.

57 minutes ago, poconojo said:

Glad to hear the VIP pre-sale went good. Got my FE and now the VIP edition. All set. Will get one more console when they are available at stores.

Thank you for your support!!!!!!!!!!!!!

57 minutes ago, cmart604 said:

My favourite post in a long time. Congrats. 

Can somebody post it over in the other Amico thread... I think they need it over there.

1 hour ago, Michael Garvey said:

Tommy,

 

Serious question that has been bugging me with these interviews......

 

 

Can you please just once turn on that ceiling fan?

 

My mind is playing tricks on me and thinking it'll hit that corner of the ceiling. 

 

It's like an escher painting.  That ceiling is not right man.

 

I know you're all Hollywood an stuff but it just looks off.

 

Lol

 

You do you but could you at least prove that the fan doesn't hit anything?

Sure!  Remind me next time in one of the live streams!

27 minutes ago, Michael Garvey said:

Oh dont be sorry. You are awesome and I wouldn't want to listen to you any other way

 

 

Keep keeping it real and busting my chops any time.

 

🙂

Yo @level1online... notice how the folks here who like Amico are super chill, intelligent posters and have a sense of humor. 

A lot different from the folks who hate on us and Amico

Which group would you prefer to have dialogue with and hang out with?